05 LC 33
0620
House
Bill 246
By:
Representatives Graves of the
137th,
Stephens of the
164th,
Carter of the
159th,
Burmeister of the
119th,
Parham of the
141st,
and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 26-4-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to dispensing prescription drugs, electronically transmitting drug orders,
refills, and Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, so as to change
certain provisions relating to the electronic transmission of prescription drug
orders; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for
other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 26-4-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
dispensing prescription drugs, electronically transmitting drug orders, refills,
and Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, is amended by striking
paragraph (5) of subsection (c) and inserting in its place the
following:
"(5)
An electronically encrypted, issued, or produced prescription drug order
transmitted from a practitioner to a pharmacist shall be considered a highly
confidential transaction and the said transmission, issuance, or production
shall not be compromised by
unauthorized
interventions, control, change, altering, manipulation, or accessing patient
record information by any other person or party in any manner whatsoever between
the time after the practitioner has electronically transmitted, issued, or
produced a prescription drug order and such order has been received by the
pharmacy of the
patient́s
choice. For
purposes of this paragraph, unauthorized interventions, control, change,
altering, manipulation, or accessing patient record information shall not
include electronic formatting or reconfiguring of data or information for
purposes of integrating into and between computer systems of practitioners and
pharmacists;"
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.